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returned from Cloudy Bay, near Wairau, he gave the documents to Hawea* 

 to read ; when he had read them he told Eauparaha that all his land at 

 Wairau had passed away to Captain Piringatapu, and that he had received a 

 big gun for it. Hauparaha was angry, and tore up the documents and threw 

 them in the fire, also the documents held by the chiefs of Ngatitoa at Kapiti, 

 and Ngatitoa of the other island. When Wakefield arrived, and the settle- 

 ments of Nelson and Wellington were formed, he (Wakefield) went to Wairau 

 for the purpose of surveying. Rauparaha did not consent as he had not been 

 paid for it, since he had been deceived by Captain Piringatapu. E,auparaha's 

 thought was that the land ought not to be taken by Wakefield, but that they 

 should consider the matter before the land was handed over. Trouble and 

 wrong was caused by the hurried attack of Wakefield and party upon 

 Kauparaha. Kauparaha has told me a good deal about this matter. It was 

 not his desire that the Europeans should be killed ; his love to Wakefield and 

 party was great. Rangihaeata, Rauparaha's nephew, was misled by his own 

 foolish thought and want of attention to what Rauparaha had said. When 

 Wakefield and party were dead, Rauparaha rose and said, ' Hearken Te 

 Rangihaeata, I will now leave you as you have set aside my tikanga, let those 

 of the Europeans that have been killed suffice ; let the others live, do not kill 

 them.' Rangihaeata replied, ' What about your daughter that has been 

 killed.' Rauparaha replied, ' Why should not that daughter die 1 ' Raupa- 

 raha also said, ' Now I will embrace Christianity, and turn to God, who has 

 preserved me from the hands of the Europeans.' This was the time when he 

 embraced Christianity. I was absent when the fight took place at Wairau, 

 having gone to preach to Ngaitahu. I went as far as Rakaia. I was there 

 one year, and was the first person that went there to preach. It was on this 

 account that my father did not go there to fight. When Rangihaeata again 

 occasioned trouble to the Europeans at the Hutt, Rauparaha was sad at the 

 folly of Rangihaeata in withholding the land that had been purchased from 

 him and Te Rangihaeata by the Europeans for .£200. Rauparaha endeavoured- 

 to persuade Rangihaeata to cease causing trouble about that land, but he 

 would not hearken. 



" Rauparaha was afterwards taken prisoner by Governor Grey at Porirua 

 without sufficient pretext. The following is the reason why he was taken : — 

 A letter was written by some one, and to which the name of Te Rauparaha 

 was signed ; it was then sent to the chiefs of Patutokotoku at Wanganui. It 

 is said that Mamaku and Rangihaeata wrote the letter and signed the name 

 of Rauparaha to give it force. I was at school at this time with Bishop 

 Selwyn at Auckland, together with my wife Ruth, and did not see the 



* Hawea, or Hawes, was a European trader residing at Kapiti at the time of the 

 transaction. 



